1. “One hand has surely worked throughout the universe.” ― Charles Darwin
2. “To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.” ― Charles Darwin
3. “I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.” ― Charles Darwin
4. “A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.” ― Charles Darwin
5. “On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.” – Charles Darwin
6. “Evolution is written on the wings of butterflies.” ― Charles Darwin
7. “Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.” ― Charles Darwin
8. “If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.” ― Charles Darwin
9. “If it wasn’t for seasickness, all the world would be sailors!” ― Charles Darwin
10. “Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.” ― Charles Darwin
11. “A pleasurable and excited state of mind, associated with affection, is exhibited by some dogs in a very peculiar manner, namely, by grinning.”― Charles Darwin
12. “Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.” ― Charles Darwin
13. “The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.” ― Charles Darwin
14. “Species of the same genus would occasionally exhibit reversions to lost ancestral characters.” ― Charles Darwin
15. “Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.” ― Charles Darwin
16. “Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire & books & music.” ― Charles Darwin
17. “Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.” — Charles Darwin
18. “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” ― Charles Darwin
19. “A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.” ― Charles Darwin
20. “A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.” ― Charles Darwin
21. “The limit of man’s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighborhood to the realms of imagination.” ― Charles Darwin
22. “What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.” ― Charles Darwin
23. “False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.”― Charles Darwin
24. “My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.” ― Charles Darwin
25. “One may say there is a force like a hundred thousand wedges…” ― Charles Darwin
26. “The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.” ― Charles Darwin
27. “I am like a gambler, and love a wild experiment.” — Charles Darwin
28. “Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.” ― Charles Darwin
29. “It is so important to bear in mind the probability of conversion from one function to another.” ― Charles Darwin
30. “The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.” ― Charles Darwin
31. “Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.” ― Charles Darwin
32. “The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.” ― Charles Darwin
33. “Man is developed from an ovule, about 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals.” — Charles Darwin
34. “Certainly, no fact in the long history of the world is so startling as the wide and repeated exterminations of its inhabitants.” ― Charles Darwin
35. “The imagination is one of the highest prerogatives of man.” ― Charles Darwin
36. “Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of Character.” ― Charles Darwin
37. “We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities… still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.” ― Charles Darwin
38. “If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” — Charles Darwin
39. “If everyone was cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.” — Charles Darwin
